Month: September 2021

|In: Catahoula Leopard Dog|Last Updated:
Police: Teen admits abandoning stolen SUV with dog inside, leaving pet to die

A teenager has pleaded guilty in juvenile court to stealing an SUV with a dog inside one afternoon this summer, then abandoning the vehicle and leaving the pet behind to die.

A Subaru Outback, its engine running, was stolen July 24 while parked outside a restaurant near Payne and Sims avenues as the driver was picking up food. Inside was GoGo, a German shepherd-husky mix, owned by Katie Klaren of St. Paul.

The vehicle was discovered three days later parked nearly 4 miles to the west. GoGo was dead inside.

Along with pleading guilty Friday in Ramsey County District Court to animal cruelty and auto theft, the 16-year-old also admitted to shooting a young person in the leg outside the Frogtown Community Center on May 20.

The pleas come with no agreement on the terms of his sentence. Those will be determined at a hearing set for Sept. 14.

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Nervously awaiting another football season at UGA | Editorial Columns

If you never know by now, I like my alma mater, the College of Ga — the oldest state-chartered college in the nation. I am a happy graduate and a past president of the national alumni affiliation. I have a haughty-wanting portrait hanging someplace in my beloved Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communications, where I give what I consider a rather generous selection of shekels each and every yr to reward the superb college students who are privileged ample to obtain admission.

I am wont to brag incessantly on the academic achievements of my university, like the 25 Rhodes Students we have developed (We pause below for supporters of You-Know-Wherever Institute of Technology to remind me at the time again about their selection of astronauts — 14 — given that they’ve only experienced 6 Rhodes Scholars. Bless their hearts.)

But as a lot pride as I have in the

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|In: Pigs As Pets|Last Updated:
Feral pigs surface to be running amok in this East Bay town

A marauding mob poured out of Mount Diablo foothills Saturday night, seeking for meals and drink, and ripping up at the very least a single manicured front lawn in San Ramon.

The mob was a team of wild boars — occasionally identified as feral pigs — and they ended up browsing for sustenance, almost certainly grubs in the lush suburban lawns.

The aftermath of their following-darkish frenzy was captured in a online video posted on Twitter by resident Ted Hunting. It confirmed a entrance garden with scraps of sod ripped up and strewn around the rest of the garden.

“The wild boars are back again in San Ramon,” Looking exclaimed, referring to a 2017 tv report on the uninvited and unwelcome thieves ripping up lawns.

Despite the

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